# Arriving

*/Activities/Arriving*

GS1 EPCIS business step: arrive goods or objects in the supply chain.

## Overview

The 'Arriving' business step represents the exact moment physical goods cross the threshold of a facility and enter a company's digital inventory ledger. This process matches incoming physical freight against Advance Shipping Notices (ASNs), purchase orders, and carrier manifests. It dictates the downstream reliability of warehouse operations, as any mismatch between expected and actual arrivals cascades into inventory errors and billing disputes.

The recurring pain lives in exception handling. When shipments arrive short, damaged, or mislabeled, receiving clerks abandon handheld scanners for manual data entry and email threads. Workers spend hours cross-referencing physical receipts with PDF bills of lading, chasing missing electronic product codes, and documenting supplier compliance violations for chargebacks.

This physical-to-digital bottleneck provides fertile ground for autonomous agents and services-as-software. Agents intercept carrier documents and ASNs to automatically reconcile inbound data streams against dock-door scan events. When discrepancies occur, these systems classify the error, route the exception, and draft supplier chargebacks without manual clerk intervention.

## Breakdown

### Target Industries
- [Logistics And Warehousing](/Activities/Arriving/Industries/Logistics_And_Warehousing)
- [Retail Trade](/Activities/Arriving/Industries/Retail_Trade)
- [Automotive Manufacturing](/Activities/Arriving/Industries/Automotive_Manufacturing)
- [Pharmaceutical Distribution](/Activities/Arriving/Industries/Pharmaceutical_Distribution)
- [Food And Beverage](/Activities/Arriving/Industries/Food_And_Beverage)

### Arrival Processes
- [Inbound Freight Unloading](/Activities/Arriving/Processes/Inbound_Freight_Unloading) — Physical transfer from vehicle
- [Receiving Quality Inspection](/Activities/Arriving/Processes/Receiving_Quality_Inspection) — Checking for shipping damage
- [Inventory Reconciliation](/Activities/Arriving/Processes/Inventory_Reconciliation) — Matching shipment against PO
- [Putaway Routing](/Activities/Arriving/Processes/Putaway_Routing) — Directing goods to storage
- [EPCIS Event Generation](/Activities/Arriving/Processes/EPCIS_Event_Generation) — Logging the arrive step

### Management Software
- [Warehouse Management Systems](/Activities/Arriving/Software/Warehouse_Management_Systems)
- [EPCIS Event Repositories](/Activities/Arriving/Software/EPCIS_Event_Repositories)
- [Enterprise Resource Planning](/Activities/Arriving/Software/Enterprise_Resource_Planning)
- [Yard Management Systems](/Activities/Arriving/Software/Yard_Management_Systems)
- [Dock Scheduling Software](/Activities/Arriving/Software/Dock_Scheduling_Software)

### Arrival Hardware
- [Fixed RFID Portals](/Activities/Arriving/Products/Fixed_RFID_Portals) — Automated pallet scanning
- [Handheld Barcode Scanners](/Activities/Arriving/Products/Handheld_Barcode_Scanners)
- [Automated Dimensioning Systems](/Activities/Arriving/Products/Automated_Dimensioning_Systems)
- [Pallet Weighing Scales](/Activities/Arriving/Products/Pallet_Weighing_Scales)

### Operational Roles
- [Receiving Clerks](/Activities/Arriving/Occupations/Receiving_Clerks)
- [Dock Supervisors](/Activities/Arriving/Occupations/Dock_Supervisors)
- [Inventory Control Specialists](/Activities/Arriving/Occupations/Inventory_Control_Specialists)
- [Forklift Operators](/Activities/Arriving/Occupations/Forklift_Operators)

## Diagrams

```mermaid
flowchart TD; node1[Physical Goods Unload at Facility] --> node2[Edge Application Scans Item Identifiers]; node2 --> node3[System Constructs EPCIS Event]; node3 --> node4[Event Asserts bizStep: arriving]; node3 --> node5[Event Asserts readPoint Location]; node4 --> node6[Repository Ingests Arriving Event]; node5 --> node6; node6 --> node7[Supply Chain Visibility Updates];
```

```mermaid
flowchart LR; vc1[Pre-Arrival In Transit] --> vc2[Dock Door Scanning]; vc2 --> vc3[Arriving Business Step]; vc3 --> vc4[Inventory Putaway]; vc4 --> vc5[Available for Order Allocation];
```

```mermaid
flowchart TD; dr1[Arriving Event Payload] --> dr2[Serialized EPC Data]; dr1 --> dr3[Location Data bizLocation]; dr1 --> dr4[Timestamp eventTime]; dr1 --> dr5[Context bizStep: arriving];
```

## Neighborhood

### Specific tasks implementing this

- [Confirm Waypoint Arrivals](/Tasks/Confirm_Waypoint_Arrivals) — implements activity · Tasks
- [Confirm safe arrival](/Tasks/Confirm_safe_arrival) — implements activity · Tasks
- [Draft Arrival Instructions](/Tasks/Draft_Arrival_Instructions) — implements activity · Tasks
- [Arrive and disembark](/Tasks/Arrive_and_disembark) — implements activity · Tasks
- [Arrive and present at entry](/Tasks/Arrive_and_present_at_entry) — implements activity · Tasks
- [Arrive on site for the session](/Tasks/Arrive_on_site_for_the_session) — implements activity · Tasks

### Similar Activities

- [Accepting](/Activities/Accepting) — similar · Activities
- [Receiving](/Activities/Receiving) — similar · Activities
- [Unloading](/Activities/Unloading) — similar · Activities
- [Unpacking](/Activities/Unpacking) — similar · Activities
- [Shipping](/Activities/Shipping) — similar · Activities
- [Transporting](/Activities/Transporting) — similar · Activities
- [Consigning](/Activities/Consigning) — similar · Activities
- [Loading](/Activities/Loading) — similar · Activities
- [Departing](/Activities/Departing) — similar · Activities
- [Collecting](/Activities/Collecting) — similar · Activities

### Similar Resources

- [COM COL receiving warehouse](/Resources/COM_COL_receiving_warehouse) — similar · Resources

### Similar Metrics

- [Dock-to-Stock Cycle Time](/Metrics/Dock-to-Stock_Cycle_Time) — similar · Metrics
- [Dock To Stock Time](/Metrics/Dock_To_Stock_Time) — similar · Metrics
- [Cost Per Received Line Item](/Metrics/Cost_Per_Received_Line_Item) — similar · Metrics
- [Receiving Cycle Time](/Metrics/Receiving_Cycle_Time) — similar · Metrics
- [Receiving Accuracy Rate](/Metrics/Receiving_Accuracy_Rate) — similar · Metrics

### Similar Software

- [Inventory Management Software](/Activities/Receiving/Software/Inventory_Management_Software) — similar · Software
- [Warehouse Management Systems](/Activities/Receiving/Software/Warehouse_Management_Systems) — similar · Software

### Similar Problems

- [Manifest Exception Handling](/Problems/Manifest_Exception_Handling) — similar · Problems

### Similar Customers

- [Chief Supply Chain Officers](/Customers/Chief_Supply_Chain_Officers) — similar · Customers